§ Ms Julie MorganTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much money from the New Opportunities Fund has been allocated to Wales(a) in total and (b) as a percentage of total funding. [124463]
§ Kate HoeyNew Opportunities Fund money is allocated to England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland on the basis of population levels and is weighted to reflect the level of deprivation in each country. The total amount allocated to Wales under the Fund's health, education and environment programmes is £91.4 million. This amount represents 6.5 per cent. of all UK funding (with the exception of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) training programmes for teachers and librarians where slightly different proportions are used).
The Funding available to Wales under each of the programmes is as follows:
£ million ICT training for teachers and school librarians 12.65 ICT training for public library staff 0.870 Out of School Hours Child care 14.3 Out of School Hours Learning 13.3 Cancer prevention, detection, treatment and care 9.45 Healthy Living Centres 19.5 Community Access to Life Long Learning 13 Green Spaces and Sustainable Communities 8.12 To date, grants totalling £3.795 million have been made to 65 health and education projects applying from Wales. This includes 50 out of school hours child care projects, costing some £670,000 and creating 5,798 new child care places, and 15 out of school hours learning projects 97W totalling £3.125 million. In addition, ICT training to the value of £2.972 million has so far been provided to school teachers and librarians in Wales.
§ Ms Julie MorganTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport when the money from the New Opportunities Fund for cancer equipment will be available in Wales. [124464]
§ Kate HoeyThe £9.75 million of Lottery Funding available to Wales under the New Opportunities Fund's cancer detection, prevention, treatment and care programme will be distributed on the basis of applications, which will be invited in the autumn. The Fund's Board will consider these applications in November and the funding should be available to support agreed projects shortly thereafter.